The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31

independence pTOuOuuCbS JueUn W Dc,
equal before the law.-Troy Times.
WHEN this country is convinced that
it does not care for further influx of
foreigners, save as the arrivals are able
to present some affirmative evidence
that they should be admitted, some
definite plan may be adopted. Then a
head-tax on the arrivals and refusal
to naturalize until after a considerable
term of years might keep out the pau
pers and the irresponsible. But the
pressure cannot be stopped by putting
up the bars for solitary cases. 1t must
be done by establishing general rule
which must be complied with, and so
general that it can be understood the
world over.-Boston Advertiser.
IT is not good policy to be too anx-
ious about the corn crop. 1t will not
be near so large as last year, but last
years crop was altogether too large.
The land needs rest precisely as men
and animals need it. The drouth rests
the land and the deficiency in the pres
ent crop is all the better for man, land
and beast. 1t is not worth while for
spectators to undertake to make money
out of short crop that follows a big
crop. Pharaoh did that, with Joseph
as his agent, but he had seven years of
crop failures to operate upon. Our
people have not one year to operate
upon Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
WHY should the prohibitionists ex-
pect the republican party to walk into
their parlor? AT every opportunity the
prohibition leaders express their hatred
of the republican party and boast of
their agency in defeating it in 1884.
Parties are collections of men, after all,
and men have keen sense of past in
jury and present insult. 1t is easier,
says the old proverb, to catch flies with
molasses than with vinegar. The pro-
hibitionists, after proclaiming that the
vinegar is extra sour-though not al
cohOlic-are in state of perpetual
surprise and Indignation that the flies
will not take to it.-BoSton Transcript.
SOME of the leaders of the "third
party" movement are beginning to
realize its feebleness and its inability
to effect any practical results. The
most prominent of the prohibition or
gans, referring to the slow growth of
that political organization throughout
the country, utters this wailing confess
sion of weakness: "The party has but
300 900 voters out of nearly 10000 900.
We tell you that it must have re-en-
forcements or confess itself baffled and
beaten. Three hundred thousand votes
can do nothing in this country against
such rooted institution as the liquor
traffic" A party which its own ad-
vocates admits is too small and weak
to accomplish anything might better
go out of business.-Albany Journal.
Mr.. DANIEL G. THOMPSON, for
merly of Montpelier, has published
another book, entitled "The Problem
of Evil" Under the head of 'The
Socialistc Fallacy" Mr.. Thompson
crticises the prevalent tendency to find
in socialism and industrial cooperation
the relief for all the evils which atflict
society and the individual. " Co-opera-
tive organization must be microcosm
of the general life and subject to the
same conditions" Hence we can eX-
pect no special virtues to be developed
in the commune of the cooperative
society which do not exist in individ.
uals or in the existing social organism
On the contrary, the success of social
ism implies the elevation of competent
individual leaders above the masses,
and thus stimulates growth of egoism
which is fatal to the highest moral and
social conditions
JOHN p. ST. JOHN is open to engage
ments, as usual, at $50 a night for
alleged prohibition addresses. He has
just filled three engagements in Massa-
chusetts, and he says that he is engaged
for seventeen nights in New York and
Pennsylvania; then he goes to Cali
fornia He adds: " We are fighting the
republican party now" Exactly, that
is what st. John is doing; and as the
republican party is in the minority in
Texas, not making it worth while for
anybody to pay for speeches against it
there, st. John did his talking in Massa-
chusetts. But there was lively pro-
hibition canvass in Texas, all the same,
and there is one now in Tennessee,
which votes on the question in Septem-
Der. st. John does his hard work in
states like Maine, where prohibition
has existed for over a quarter of a
century, but where the republican party
is in the maj ority.-Trib,me.
THE Boston Traveller, in speaking OF
Robert 7. Lincoln as a possible presi,
dental candidate, considers it certain
:" that once before this country, the son
of Old Abe would never be voted
down by the American people" The
American people certainly ought to
have feelings of respect and even ven.
Grafton for Abraham Lincoln and what
he did for this republic, but twenty-five
years is long time in this country,
and it must be borne in mind that to a
very large part of the voters who are to
decide the presidential election in 1888
Abraham Lincoln and his work are
only historical memories. And histori.
cal memories do not always win politi.
cal campaigns in the United States, as
has been effectually proven by the de.
feat in 1884 of General John A. Logan
by Thomas A. Hendricks. The repub
lican party can win in 1888, but it can,
not win by trusting in a historical
memory to "sweep the country."-
Springfield Union.
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